DISARMAMENT PLAN
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FRANCE SUGGESTS FREEDOM OF SEAS BE abandoneu PROPOSAL TO AMERICA
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Rec. April 18, 11 p.m. LONDON, Monday. The Daily Express correspondent at Geneva says that France, as the price of hei\ disarmament, has demanded that the United States should abandon her traditional claim to the freedom of the seas, and that instead there should be an enlargement of the Kellogg Pact, whereby the United States would undertake not to trade with any state which the council of the League of Nations had defined as an aggressor. It is understood that unless Great Britain favours the French proposition, the United States will refuse to countenance the projeet. It is also known that Sir John Simon (British Foreign Secretary) again tried to persuade M. Tardieu to re-open negotiations with Italy in order that both parties may sign the naval agreement drafted in London in 193-0, which is abortive owing .fo France and lltaly having so far declined to sign. The Daily Telegraph's diplomafic correspondent says that Mr. A. W. Mellon (America), in a private conversation, intimated that there was not the slightest chance of America agreeing to a revision of wai' dehts at present, and that it would be fatal to raise the question at this juncture.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 202, 19 April 1932, Page 5
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